description of startswith is confused

[mft]

BPO	1678
Nosy	@birkenfeld

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title = 'description of startswith is confused'
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[mft]

In the Library Reference 3.6.1 String Method, the description of
startswith is confused with endswith. It says:
prefix can also be a tuple of suffixes to look for.
Here, "suffixes" means "prefixes".

Note: This part is new for 2.5.

[birkenfeld]

This is already fixed in SVN and will be live with the next docs update.
Thanks for reporting!